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 1 1| lifeless things. Indeed we may say of most physical inquirers,
 2 1|       senses severally, we may say that touch and taste necessarily
 3 2|    dark? It is totally idle to say, as the Timaeus does, that
 4 2|        there coalesce, as some say, with rays which proceed
 5 2|     smell consists of fire. (I say the sense of smell, not
 6 3|         for example, we should say colour is, or sound, or
 7 3|       this. Here, then, we may say that Light is a "nature"
 8 3|   these hypotheses aside, and] say with the ancients that colours
 9 3|      so that it were better to say at once that visual perception
10 3|        together; but we do not say that by such a process any
11 5|         but we cannot go on to say this of the former kind
12 5|       its own right, is, so to say, always beneficial to persons
13 7|       this up, go so far as to say that even the current opinion
14 7|      and many, as if we should say that they were each a set
15 7|   being; different, that is to say, in genus as regards some
16 7| visible is determinate. We may say the same of the objects